where are you trying this out? In Zotero?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Rönkkö Mikko <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi
>
>  I decided to develop a simple CSL processor to convert Zotero json
> strings to APA citations. The code will be used in ZotPad and after the
> processor works, I will publish the code as a separate project in gihub.
>
>  I am using json strings from Zotero server  as data and validating the
> output against formatted citations from Zotero server. The citations are
> formatted using the APA style from
> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/apa.cslusing 
> the CSL 1.0.1 specification.
>
>  I am using the following bibliography item as my test data
>
>  Cadogan, J. W., & Lee, N. (Forthcoming). Improper Use of Endogenous
> Formative Variables. <i>Journal of Business Research</i>.
>
>  There is one thing that I do not understand. In the APA style (lines
> 429-434) there is a group
>
>          <group delimiter=". ">
>           <text macro="author"/>
>           <text macro="issued"/>
>           <text macro="title" prefix=" "/>
>           <text macro="container"/>
>         </group>
>
>
>  The macro "author" has a names element with initialize-with=". " and the
> macro "issued" contains a group with prefix " (". Now to my understanding,
> this means that
>
>  - The "author" macro will end with ". "    [Cadogan, J. W., & Lee, N.]
> - The "issued" macro will start with " ("   [ (Forthcoming)]
> - The macros are delimited with ". "
>
>  This results in a bibliographic item that starts by
>
>  Cadogan, J. W., & Lee, N..  (Forthcoming).
>
>  This is obviously not correct. There should not be a double period
> followed by a double space, but I do not understand which part of the
> formatting logic is incorrect.
>
>  Mikko
>
>
>
>
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